Garden End 2021

Our third gardening season out here on the acreage is over and once again we had good results. We have put up over 20 quarts of diced tomatoes and around 10 quarts of zucchini for soups and stews. The herbs we brought inside to nurse along for as long as they last. During the summer we thought the zucchini was stretching vines all over the garden only to discover an invasive yellow gourd plant was the culprit. When we were pulling it out we discovered it had shot roots into the ground all along the vines, making it even harder to pull out. The tomato plants did so well that just before the killing frost at the the end of October they were so full of green tomatoes and yellow blossoms they looked like they could have continued producing for months. The final act of the 2021 season is waiting to see how many of our green tomatoes laid out in the garage will ripen.